Just to let you know Microsoft have released a hotfix to sort out an issue where users home folders were getting deleted whenever a users home folder path was change to a DFSR path within an AD user Object.

For full details of the symptoms see my previous blog ‘ http://support.risualblogs.com/blog/2011/01/24/offline-files-and-group-policy-causes-home-folder-deletion/’

The Hotfix is KB977611 and can be requested from the following location ‘http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977611’

Hotfix Symptoms Quoted from the above Microsoft KB Article.

“Consider the following scenario:

• As a domain administrator, you apply a Folder Redirection Group Policy object (GPO) in order to redirect a folder to a network share. For example, you redirect the Documents folder.
• You change the Folder Redirection GPO to specify a new network share. Additionally, the new network share targets the same physical location as the existing network share.
• When you change the Folder Redirection GPO, you click to select the Move the contents of <Folder_Name> to the new location check box.
• You apply the Folder Redirection GPO to the domain users and to the client computers.
• A domain user logs on to a client computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

In this scenario, the domain user finds that the redirected folder is empty.
Notes

• This issue typically occurs when you redirect a folder to a Distributed File System (DFS) link.
• For more information about how to configure the Folder Redirection GPO, see the More information section.

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Came across an issue this week where a single users DFS target was set to a remote location instead of it’s own.

So first thing i did was install the DFS tools from the windows 7 RSAT.

I then ran the following command to view the cache for the referrals “dfsutil cache referral” this displayed a list of all the DFS shares the user had accessed. I scrolled down the list to find the troublesome share. On the troublesome share there was an error code on the status instead of a status to 0.

So what i decide to do was flush the cache “dfsutil cache referral flush” , i then accessed the DFS share which had now started to point it’s target as the local file server.

I then ran the “dfsutil cache referral” to see if the error code had gone from the local file server and it had